Michael Liu

Founder | Organizer | Investor | Partnerships | Community | Events | Canadian in SF | ODF10 | Sharing Founding Teams Content | IN✦

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Canadian in San Francisco. Passionate about building community, events, partnerships, content, and meaningful connections. Sharing stories, lessons, opportunities, and the advantages of thinking like a founder (even if you're not one... yet).

Experience

  • Head of Events at Inception Studio
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    Inception Studio is a non-profit accelerator built for the most experienced world-class entrepreneurs and builders at the earliest stages of starting their next AI company. This includes the Buildathon program for the best and brightest AI engineers, researchers, and founders.

  • Mentor at StartX
    Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    StartX is an educational non-profit that accelerates the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education and collective intelligence.

  • Angel Investor at Virio
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    One of the first cheques in. Virio helps GTM execs deploy content that drives pipeline. Backed by execs from LinkedIn, Rippling, Hubspot, and the biggest creators on LinkedIn. www.virio.ai

  • Co-Founder & Co-Chair at Toronto Tech Fest
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Toronto Tech Fest is the biggest decentralized 'unconference' week in Toronto, running annually in the Spring. 2024 brought out 10,000+ RSVPs, 3000+ attendees, 85+ events across 255+ collaborators between May 21-24. Founding partner of Toronto Tech Week.

  • Founder and CEO at Erdos Ventures
    Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

    Erdos Ventures is a Techstars backed company that leverages technology to appraise, acquire, and activate portfolios of high potential niche e-commerce brands at scale.